Who sold what at the Art Fair

JP Gangooly’s upland landscape

According to a enactment issued by the IAF, Nature Morte sold 70 per cent of their booth by Day Two, including a Jitish Kallat enactment for astir $100,000.

On Day One, Vadehra Art Gallery had sold 90 per cent of their booth. With prices reportedly ranging from $2,500 to $300,000 USD, the works astatine the Vadehra booth included the likes of Sudhir Patwardhan, Atul Dodiya, Shilpa Gupta and Vivan Sundaram.

Art Exposure assemblage sold six works by Buddhadev Mukherjee for $44,000 successful total, with 3 reportedly going to Kiran Nadar, 1 to different Indian collector, and 2 to a US-based collector. Iram Gallery sold works by Promiti Husain and Sangeeta Sandrasegar, arsenic good arsenic a ample enactment by Dinar Sultana to an Indian collector for $24,000.
Debuting astatine the IAF, Chennai-based Ashvita’s Art Gallery sold 5 works by DP Roy Chowdhury to a Mumbai-based collector for $69,000. Shrine Empire sold 2 works by Nandita Kumar for implicit $30,000 each, and aggregate smaller works astatine the $10,000 terms point.

Madhvi Parekh 1975 lipid connected canvas

Featuring 13 planetary exhibitors this year, the planetary biggies astatine the IAF — including Lisson Gallery, Galleria Continua and David Zwirner — besides made important sales. The income astatine David Zwirner included paintings by Portia Zvavahera, Oscar Murillo and Sosa Joseph, and a sculpture by Pakistani-American sculptor Huma Bhabha.
Carpenters Workshop Gallery, which focuses connected redefining boundaries betwixt creation and design, had made income worthy $600,000 connected Day One itself. This included Maarten Baas’s Self Portrait Clock, which went to a salient Indian collection. “The effect has been phenomenal… India is an important market, though we bash request to enactment with the logistics, taxation implications and proscription of works from location (gallery locations the satellite over),” noted Loic Le Gaillard, co-founder of the gallery.

Before the just commenced, its manager Jaya Asokan had emphasised however it offers an adjacent level to indigenous Indian accepted creation forms — that propulsion seemed to bespeak successful the income arsenic well.

SH Raza’s abstract acceptable wrong an aged model frame

“Earlier, astatine the creation just we had the much accepted clientele who would marque purchases oregon young collectors who would acquisition an entry-point Pichvai, but this twelvemonth I noticed that radical were consenting to bargain the much costly works arsenic well, which was precise heartwarming,” said Pooja Singhal, creation collector, curator and revivalist, who is the laminitis of Pichvai Tradition & Beyond. She added, “The outreach of the just has surely broadened, with radical coming from the satellite implicit arsenic good arsenic cities crossed India. We had respective architects showing involvement for projects, and radical person commissioned works from the catalogue arsenic well.”

Participating successful the IAF since 2012, this twelvemonth the prices astatine her booth ranged from Rs 15,000 to Rs 8.5 lakh. On presumption were accepted Pichvais arsenic good arsenic modern interventions, including grey-scale rendition of the 24 Swaroop composition.